Dr. Charles O'Mahony

Lecturer, School of Law, NUI Galway

Charles has been Head of School since May 2017, having joined the School of Law in 2012. He completed a PhD at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway entitled “Diversion: A Comparative Study of Law and Policy Relating to Defendants and Offenders with Mental Health Problems and Intellectual Disability”. Charles was elected as President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers (IALT) from 2014-2016. He previously worked as Amnesty International Ireland’s Legal Officer on its mental health campaign and as a legal researcher for the Law Reform Commission of Ireland. He was awarded a LLM from University College London and a LLM in Public Law from NUI Galway. He completed a BA in Law and History and a LLB at NUI Galway. read less